“Who, to say nothing about the perils of an awful and unknown sea, would have left Asia or Africa or Italy to look for Germany?”

“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”

“Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.”

“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.”

“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”

“It is a principle of nature to hate those whom you have injured.”

“To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.”